The success of their performance of The Rose of Versailles in the fifth grade - in which the boys played the women and the girls played the men - inspires the protagonists to put on another gender-bending play for the junior-high school festival. This time they do a riff on Romeo and Juliet, with generous helpings of fantasy and mystery. Nitori-kun and Chiba-san write the script together, but Chiba-san has an agenda: she wants to play Romeo, with Nitori-kun in the role of Juliet.

This, the fifth volume of the 'Wandering Son' series continues the story of Shuichi, the boy who wants to be a girl and his friend Yoshino, the girl who wants to be a boy. One day, their secret is revealed and the two find themselves the target of sixth grade cruelty.